Until more of us can get our hands on the game I don’t think we’ll be able to make a fair judgment on how RE will turn out.
It looks slow and vertical, which seems easy enough to get around given the robust movement system (thank god for a return to form here), but it also has armor on it which makes me think I, personally, will jump the gun on a punish and then get hit by the damn RE anyway.
How safe are the REs? Can we do more than just the bare minimum, generic A, A punish? Can we punish them at all?
Is the safety of the RE character specific? Like, hypothetically, Sophie’s RE is -7 on block, but Asta’s is -12? That’d be a huge deterrent to use it if it was more unsafe for certain chars, and a dynamic that everyone would have to keep in mind character to character.
What happens if a to-be-announced character’s RE is a horizontal mid?
What is someone’s RE is horizontal high?
What about the option of just turtling up during the rock-paper-scissors portion? Can’t I just guard through two iterations and beat all options?
So many questions that can all be answers with just a bit more time and some hands on experience.
Side note: I made this post from The ‘Ol Porcelain Throne so this is literally shitposting.